Leading companies from across the automotive and transportation sector
are supporting the GSMA Embedded SIM Specification to help accelerate
the growth of the connected car market, the GSMA announced today. The
interoperable specification has been backed by international brands
including General Motors, Jaguar Land Rover, Renault Nissan, Scania and
Volvo Cars, and will enable automakers to remotely provision
connectivity over the air to vehicles with an operator of their choice.
It will help to deliver a range of in-vehicle services such as
infotainment, real-time navigation, insurance and breakdown services, as
well as telematics and remote diagnostics. The use of the specification
will also help to quickly connect vehicles with local operators,
regardless of where the cars are manufactured.

“The GSMA Embedded SIM Specification has progressed from the first
availability of commercial solutions to industry adoption in a very
short space of time. The automotive sector is set for huge growth and it
is clear that a common, global standard will help mobile operators to
provide scalable, reliable and secure connectivity to vehicles
regardless of location,” said Alex Sinclair, Chief Technology Officer,
GSMA. “This approach will help car manufacturers offer any type of
in-car connected service through a single SIM, which can be provisioned
with the profile of a mobile operator once the car is shipped, as well
as at the end of a contract, without the SIM needing to be changed.”

The connected car market is set for exponential growth. Gartner Research
has forecast that one in five vehicles will have some form of wireless
network connection by 2020, equating to more than 250 million connected
vehicles in service¹. Additionally, Machina Research estimates that the
total number of connections in the connected car market will grow at a
CAGR of 31 per cent from 182 million in 2015 to 693 million in 2020.²
Analyst house Berg Insight also notes that in-vehicle embedded
telematics systems shipped 1.9 million units in 2014, a figure that is
expected to reach 15 million by 20203.

“Jaguar Land Rover is putting connectivity at the heart of its vehicles
to deliver a range of safety, security, convenience and infotainment
features for our customers. The GSMA Embedded SIM Specification allows
Jaguar Land Rover to reduce manufacturing complexity, adapt to changing
regulatory frameworks and work with the best mobile operators, on a
country-specific or regional basis, improving the customer offering to
deliver the next generation of connected services over the lifetime of
our vehicles,” commented Mike Bell, Global Connected Car Director,
Jaguar Land Rover.

“The Renault – Nissan Alliance is a global industry innovator for
technology for mainstream and mass-market consumers. Supporting the GSMA
Embedded SIM Specification will help sustain our innovations by
enforcing a reliable and stabilized solution and enable us to offer more
flexible and agile solutions. We will be able to offer our customers
ease of use and a high quality of service which are Renault – Nissan’s
main objectives,” commented Alexandre Corjon, Renault-Nissan Alliance
Global VP, Electrics Electronics & Systems Engineering.

To date, 22 mobile operators worldwide have commercially launched
solutions based on the GSMA Embedded SIM Specification. New operators to
launch commercial solutions include AIS, América Móvil, KPN, MTN, Rogers
Wireless, Swisscom, Taiwan Mobile, Telenor, TIM as well as members of
the Bridge Alliance and the Global M2M Association. The adoption of an
interoperable specification will reduce fragmentation and help the
industry to take advantage of the Internet of Things, an addressable
market estimated to be worth US$1.1 trillion by 2020 according to
Machina Research4. Bell Canada, Deutsche Telekom, Etisalat,
Indosat, NTT DOCOMO, Orange, Tele2, Telefónica Brasil, Telefónica Group,
TeliaSonera and Vodafone have already made commercial solutions
available to the market.

The GSMA’s Connected Living Programme will showcase the GSMA Embedded
SIM Specification at Mobile World Congress 22-25 February in Barcelona.
There will be a number of live demonstrations of the specification in
the GSMA Innovation City located at Stands 3A11 and 3A31 in Hall 3, Fira
Gran Via, including scenarios from Bridge Alliance and the Global M2M
Association. There will also be a number of workshops, seminars and
presentations highlighting the impact of the GSMA Embedded SIM
Specification on the international market. The GSMA Innovation City will
be open during Mobile World Congress exhibition hours. For further
information on Mobile World Congress 2016, visit www.mobileworldcongress.com.

5.) According to GSMA Intelligence, as of Q4 2015, there are 313 million
cellular M2M connections for all operators committed to launching the
GSMA Embedded SIM Specification accounting for 76% of total global
cellular M2M connections.

About the GSMA

The GSMA represents the interests of mobile operators worldwide, uniting
nearly 800 operators with more than 250 companies in the broader mobile
ecosystem, including handset and device makers, software companies,
equipment providers and internet companies, as well as organisations in
adjacent industry sectors. The GSMA also produces industry-leading
events such as Mobile World Congress, Mobile World Congress Shanghai and
the Mobile 360 Series conferences.

For more information, please visit the GSMA corporate website at www.gsma.com.
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